Washington Caucus Results Thread

[Gray Fullbuster]

The rules we were given at our pooled caucus didn't start the caucus until 10:30.

What's a pooled caucus?

 

[RPit]

The rules we were given at our pooled caucus didn't start the caucus until 10:30.

The individual 'precinct caucuses' start at 10:30 BUT the actual 'pooled caucus' starts at 10, and that is the cutoff time.

 

[RPit]

What's a pooled caucus?

Multiple precincts meetings in the same place.

 

[kathy88]

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At our caucus someone moved to hear the results of our straw poll. Chairman said no. I stood up, raised my hand, meeting closed.

 

[tsai3904]

Can you stop with the talking down to us? I've stated this everywhere, even if there is no one in your precinct that is a PCO, they don't have to appoint you. In fact, I was told if the GOP googled my name and anything related to Paul came up, I was probably not going to be selected. They knew the game we were running and there was reportedly bad blood between the '08 Paul Washington state campaign and the State/local GOP. Just stop, we tried.

I'm not talking down to anyone. I'm trying to let everyone know the importance of the position and how they can become one in the future. The point is that if you win your election as a PCO, you don't have to worry about one person appointing you.

This is why our supporters need to file as candidates because if you win your election, you become a PCO no matter what any Chairman says.

 

[PolicyReader]

Both Mr. Domke and Mr. Vance also characterized the Paul campaign as having the strongest ground game, something which could be important since the traditional auspices of the campaign (field offices, phone banking, door-to-door hand shaking) have been relatively absent in the state. Only the Paul campaign has ads on Washington airwaves. Only the Santorum-affiliated “super PAC” has spent any money in Washington — the not-so-grand sum of $2,008.The candidates have visited the state a couple times, but nothing like the attention they lavished on Iowa.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/in-washington-caucus-expect-the-unexpected/

Nope not real results but since those aren't out yet

 

[RPit]

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At our caucus someone moved to hear the results of our straw poll. Chairman said no. I stood up, raised my hand, meeting closed.

Ya no kidding, the chairman shut us down too. In all the major, ie big counties, they crushed anyone asking for the vote. Only the 'rural' areas with small counties and caucuses are where people are 'decent' enough to announce the results. But since they are small the establishment doesn't require fraud, King County and Snohomish County are Fraud Headquarters, but this year surprisingly we're doing well (perhaps win) King County from what I'm hearing, so how they pull it off is another story..

 

[pauliticalfan]

fivethirtyeight: Anecdotal accounts seem to suggest Paul or Romney will win WA caucuses, Santorum less likely.

 

[justatrey]

Posted by Blue Republican on Facebook:

Belltown, Seattle. King County Caucus - massively for Paul. #GOP #RonPaul

About 200 people in the room.

Probably about 30 precincts in the room.

Overwhelmingly for Paul (I'd say at least two-thirds of all votes). Only other candidate with a look-in was Romney.

Almost everyone under 40 voted for Paul. Most people over 60 voted for Romney, as far as I could tell... The future is ours!

I manned the only table outside the caucus. Well done to the RP volunteers of Seattle. You did great... Special props to Sarina, Darren and Andrew. (You know who you are!)

 

[sailingaway]

I find it very strange that our doors were NOT shut at 10:00. In fact, the last time I looked at 10:40 there were still people coming in. I'm not sure if they shut them at all.

if there are 'irregularities' like that and Ron wins, they throw out the delegates. At least, that happened in Maine. Oddly, there were no instances of Romney delegates being thrown out.

 

[RabbitMan]

Ya no kidding, the chairman shut us down too. In all the major, ie big counties, they crushed anyone asking for the vote. Only the 'rural' areas with small counties and caucuses are where people are 'decent' enough to announce the results. But since they are small the establishment doesn't require fraud, King County and Snohomish County are Fraud Headquarters, but this year surprisingly we're doing well (perhaps win) King County from what I'm hearing, so how they pull it off is another story..

We had someone in our King County pooled caucus ask for the public count, the chairman said the rules were that he wasn't to look at them, the motion was seconded anyway and voted aye by the rest of us, and the chairman said people that wanted to stay could tell their precinct results but that was it.

 

[RPit]

We had someone in our King County pooled caucus ask for the public count, the chairman said the rules were that he wasn't to look at them, the motion was seconded anyway and voted aye by the rest of us, and the chairman said people that wanted to stay could tell their precinct results but that was it.

They made many excuses, we had 3 or 4 people raise the motion differently and inquiring about the rules we'd break, of course he had none. It was total BS, and anyone who wasn't wearing establishment blinders could see that (at least I hope)

 

[PolicyReader]

Posted by Blue Republican on Facebook:

Belltown, Seattle. King County Caucus - massively for Paul. #GOP #RonPaul

About 200 people in the room.

Probably about 30 precincts in the room.

Overwhelmingly for Paul (I'd say at least two-thirds of all votes). Only other candidate with a look-in was Romney.

Almost everyone under 40 voted for Paul. Most people over 60 voted for Romney, as far as I could tell... The future is ours!

I manned the only table outside the caucus. Well done to the RP volunteers of Seattle. You did great... Special props to Sarina, Darren and Andrew. (You know who you are!)

+rep, thanks to all who participated

 

[helmuth_hubener]

I see so much potential for fraud with secret counts. Trivially easy. Unprovable, unless the party releases the precinct-by-precinct breakdown.

Corrupt, corrupt, corrupt.

 

[Hutch41]

Precinct 1401 in north seattle checking in..there were a total of 5 that showed, 2 for paul and 3 for santorum. Myself and the other paul supporter took the delegate spots. /feelsgoodman

 

[jcarcinogen]

Here's some paperwork from my caucus which seems to be for all of King county. http://imageshack.us/g/268/rules2v.jpg/

 

[JJ2]

Looks like people are voting Romney just to stop Paul

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Timothy Rivetveld, 57, told @AP_Phuong he voted for Romney in WA caucuses, though “my heart is for Santorum.” #wacaucus #wagop #romney...

 

[libertythor]

Looks like people are voting Romney just to stop Paul

Chris Grygiel ‏ @ChrisGrygiel Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Timothy Rivetveld, 57, told @AP_Phuong he voted for Romney in WA caucuses, though “my heart is for Santorum.” #wacaucus #wagop #romney...

Doesn't surprise me.

 

[RPit]

Looks like people are voting Romney just to stop Paul

Chris Grygiel ‏ @ChrisGrygiel Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Timothy Rivetveld, 57, told @AP_Phuong he voted for Romney in WA caucuses, though “my heart is for Santorum.” #wacaucus #wagop #romney...

Someone I knew who even phonebanked at the HQ surprised me by saying now he supports Gary Johnson and didn't go.. That left my jaw dropped

And many are just voting for Romney to be on the winning side "he's going to win the nomination so..." (not RP supporters but generally speaking)

 

[libertythor]

Someone I knew who even phonebanked at the HQ surprised me by saying now he supports Gary Johnson and didn't go.. That left my jaw dropped

And many are just voting for Romney to be on the winning side "he's going to win the nomination so..." (not RP supporters but generally speaking)

And that is just retarded. Voting in the GOP caucus doesn't stop somebody from supporting Gary Johnson in the general election.